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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by E Bowman, 
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VALUABLE INFORMATION. 



The kinds of business in which energetic men in all parts of th« 
country, can engage, and by the investment of a small capital 
realize large profits are mimerous, and a wide field is open for 
men in every district through the country. There has been, and 
still are, thousands of men who have passed their lives in daily 
toil for a bare subsistance, who did they but apply themselves 
half as thoroughly to any one of the numerous branches of busi- 
ness which I shall name, might have enjoyed a competence. I 
have been travelling, as itinerant salesman in different kinds of 
business for several years, and have been acquainted with men 
almost without number, who have been engaged in similar kinds 
of business, and scarce are the cases where an honest, industrious 
man has not been far more successful than he ever expected at 
the start. I am acquainted with several men who have engaged 
in the sale of the magic copying paper, and have made $100, $200 
and even §300 in a month. In the manufacture and sale of soaps 
of various kinds, the above sums are constantly being made. 
But in the sale of medicines of various kinds, the field is open for 
thousands to commence a business of this kind. It is best as a 
general rule to take but one article, or one class of articles, thus 
enabling a person to fully understand their business ; put up their 
goods in good shape, and get them before the public to better 
advantage. 

For instance, let a person put up the article of cough syrup, 
and pay their whole attention to that ; it will give them a far 
better chance to make a good article, and introduce it to the 
public in better shape, and at the same time enable them to ex- 
tend the sale to a larger circle. Fortunes have been made,^ and 
are continually being made by putting up one article of medicine 
and selling it by a thorough system of advertising. For instance, 
Russia Salve has been sold to the amount of hundreds of thou- 
sands of dollars, while scores of preparations for the same use of 
equal, and perhaps of more value, have passed comparatively 
unnoticed, merely for the want of the means being taken to place 
them before the public; and so in regard to thousands of other 
things. 



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I shall endeavor in this work to 0ve an insisrht into the manu- 
factnrft nnd proper morles of sellins: various articles which can- 
not fail to be of benefit to those who will make it so. To begin, 
the principal thin^ is to select an article that can be made profi- 
table by the investment of the smallest capital. For instance, if 
a person, has heretofore been to work for what merelv enabled 
them to ^et a living they must select the article that will need the 
least ready money, and save the profits until they have enough 
to manufacture tiie article that will need a larger capital, and pay 
laTjrer profits . 

Chira eartlen and glass ware cement.wart extractor. & furniture 
polish, can perhaps be got up as low as anything. The universal 
liniment is an art'cle also that can be got up to advantage, with 
a capital of a few dollars, and is an article that will give univer- 
sal satisfaction, and when once introduced, meet with a. ready 
sale. It would be a good idea, when first introducing a medicine 
to put up a yjart of it with a line drawn horizontally across the 
label.about an inch and a half from the top, inscribed "use to this 
at my expense." to be left with families for trial in cases 
where they decline buying it . The cough lozenges are an article 
that should, in most instances, be sold at wholesale at stores. 
Should yon wish to make them, vou can probably make arrange- 
ments with a confectioner to make them for you, as low as you 
can make them yourself, taking into consideration the time that 
the manufacture will require. Or. should you wish to put tip 
an assortment of articles I have endeavored to give a list of 
receipts from which you cAn easily make a good selection — 
cssppces of all kinds afford a good "profit, and meet with ready 
sales. Needles are an article on which a great deal of money can 
be made, by making that ones sole business; good needles can be 
bought for from 80 cents to $1,00 per thousand, according to the 
quantity, 40 papers in a thousand, common retail price, 6 cents 
per paper. By putting them up 5 or 6 papers in a bunch for 25 
cents, and leaving them for trial, at the same time leaving a cir- 
cular, stating the difTerence between the price that you ask and 
the common price, and asking them to try them before you re- 
turn ; you will find it to be. in a good locality, a business that 
will pay $15 to $25 per week, besides expenses. Common agato 
shirt buttons is an article that has been made to pay profits much 
larger than the above. A person can take an assortment, con- 
sisting of plain figured and colored agate buttons, and do an ex- 
cellent business, from the fact that he can buy the goods, and 
sell at 1-2 the common prices, and make 100 per cent. A person 
can always do a good business with a good assoi"tment of Yankee 
notions. " I am acquainted with a voung man,_who less than 8 
years ago was not worth a dollar. He was a native of Cape Cod, 
and a number of seasons went to the banks fishing, scarcely 
making enough to keep soul and body together. He commenced 
peddling Yankee notions, on foot, with a hand tnmk. He has at 
the present time what money invested in ships, pays him $1000 
per year; he continues the peddling business, and makes, in that 
as much, more. All that is necessary, is for a person to apply 
themselves diligently to busmess, and endeavor to give satisfac- 
tion to all. 

Also, in the sale of patent rights and patent articles. There 
are chances for hundreds of men, and a smart salesman can do 



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as well as in any business ; also, in getting subscribers for various 
standard works, magazines, -weekly and daily papers. A smart 
salesman can always realize good pay in any of the kinds of 
business named. In selling the article' of sewing silk, at retail, 
S60 to $100 per month can be made by a good hand. An invest- 
ment of $25 to §50 is all that is necessary to commence business. 
In the sale of hand-stamps, or stensil plates and indelible ink for 
marking clothing $75 to $100 per month can be made in almsot 
any part of the country. An acquaintance of mine met a young 
man a short time since, selling music, who was selling several 
dollars worth a day, and had not paid anything for stock since 
his first investment of a few dollars the year before. The way he 
managed was as follows: after selling to a family as many pieces 
of music as they wished, he would offer to change, by giving 1 
piece for 2 or 3 pieces. In that way he kept himself supplied 
with stock, could sell for half the conimon price, and drive a good 
business. A good business can also be done, by taking books of 
the right kind ; books that can be sold at 15 or 20 cents are as 
sure as any. The best way is for two to start together, one per- 
son to go first, and leave a circular to each house, describing the 
contents and naming the price, and the other to follow with the 
books. In villages, one person can easily do the whole. 

I subjoin, aside from the three first, which have never been 
published heretofore, upwards of 100 receipts, partly original and 
partly selected. I have endeavored to select articles that will 
meet with the best sale, and pay good profits. The manufacture 
and sale of the three first articles I deem the best for a permanent 
business. I think, that I have named scarcely an article 
but what can be made to pay well in any part of the Country. If 
you should conclude to try any of the kinds of business named 
and should not succeed at first, do not be discouraged, try again. 
If you should not succeed with one try another — there is a long 
list to select from ; the country is large, and there is room and 
money for all. Should you want any farther information in re- 
gard to any of the receipts, write to me, enclosing a stamp, and I 
will answer by return of mail, or for from 25 cents to $1,00 ac- 
cording to the time and trouble necessary, I will furnish you 
\rith any information that you may desire in regard to the whole- 
sale prices of the different kin ds of goods, and the firms where 
they may be had. I will also send for $1.00 any receipt that you 
may want, for the manufacture of any article of medicine or any- 
thing else, always refunding the money when I cannot give the 
desired information. It is frequently the case, that a person can 
sell the receipt for the article ihat Ihey are manufacturing for a 
high price. Should you have occasion to sell copies of this book, 
I will sell you three copies for 1.00: 20 copies 5,00 or 100 copies for 
S20. By taking pains I think you may sell many of them. I shall 
Send them at these prices, in no case, except where I have received 
1.00 for the first copy. A person can also select receipts which he 
may do a good business in selling, there being none which are 
not worth to a person, who wants them for his own use, more 
than dQuble the price of the whole. 

E. BOWMAN. 



RECEIPTS 



1st. For Making Cough Sirup. 

Take 1 lb. Thorough wort (Boneset) 6 oz. Life-everlasting, 
6 oz. flaxseed, 2 oz. golden thread — boil down 1-2. Pour 
off the liquid and filter, through a tunnel or otherwise; 
then add one gallon 90 per cent alcohol, and 2 galls, molas- 
ses. Bottle tight. Directions for use. Take from a table-spoon- 
ful to a wineglassful three times a day before eating, until 
relieved. It also makes a good strengthening bitter. 

2nd, Universal Liniment. 

To 1 gallon alcohol, add 1 lb of Onica flowers, and let them 
stand together from 16 to 24 days, shaking frequently. Pour 
off the liquid and filter. — Bottle tight. Directions for use — 
For headache take from 30 drops to a teaspoonful internally 
rub the temples Avith the same and inhale from the bottle 
through the nose, continue as above until relieved. For burns 
bruises, sprains, strains. Rheumatism, cuts, chilblains, etc., 
bathe the parts affected thoroughly every few hours. For a 
cold 20 to 30 drops. 

3d. Cough Lozenges. 

Finely pulverized loaf sugar 10 lbs., Fur Balsam 1 oz. or 
more to suit, enough mucilage of gum tragacanthtomix, add 
powdered Ipecac 1^ to 2 teaspoonfuls to the lb., mix the 
mass thoroughly and evenly. Pioll them to the thickness of 
common lozenges, cut them the right size and do them in tin 
foil and then in paper; after leaving them on a tin dish or in- 
verted seive to dry. To prevent them from sticking, a few 
drops of olive oil, or a little powdered starch may be used. 

From 20 to 25 lozenges should be put up in a roll. Mucilage 
of gam arable or the stained white of eggs may be used to 
make the articles adhere, instead of gum tragacanth. Direc- 
tions. Hold them in the mouth and let them melt slowly. 



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4th. Magic Copying Paper, or Manifold 

Writer. 

Get thick paper, four different colors to correspond as near 
as possible with the coloring matter to put on. To color black 
get fine lamp-black; blue, Prussian blue, red, Venetian red, 
green, crome green, mix them separately with lard oil. Ap- 
plj' to the paper with a sponge by rubbing until completly 
saturated. Then lay down alternate layers of colored and 
uncolored paper, and press them hard two or three days. — 
Then take them apart and if necessary apply more coloring 
matfer. Where there is more coloring than necessary rub it 
off with a dry sponge. Press it again. When colored through 
evenly, it is tit for use. Cut it into strips 6 to 8 inches long, 
and 4 to 6 inches wide. Do it up fii-st in tin-foil, then in an 
envelope. Directions for writing. Lay it on the paper that 
you wish to write on. Place a piece of ruled paper over; use 
a stiletto or other sharp point. To write two or more letters 
at once, take as many sheets of paper as you wish to write 
letters. Place between each a sheet of copying paper of the 
color you wish the writing to appear in. In this way you 
may write almost as many letters to time as you wish. Em- 
broideiy patterns — Lay the copying paper on a sheet of com- 
mon writing paper; then lay on the pattei'n, and trace the 
lines with a stiletto. Engravings are drawn in like manner 
To take the impression of leaves — place a green leaf between 
a sheet of copying paper doubled, lay over the whole a 
piece of waste paper; rub thoroughly until the leaf is com- 
pletely saturated. Then place it between the sheets of paper 
and rub it with the finger thoroughly, and you have the ex- 
act iiTipi-ession. 

Crockery Cement. 

For mending broken china, take a very thick solution of 
gum-arabic in water, and add plaster pai'is enough to make a 
viscuous paste. Apply with a brush or quill to the fractured 
edges and let them stand for 3 or 4 days when they will be 
about as sti'ong as neAV. This is a vei'y good article to put 
up and sell in small vials for 25c each. A person in a good 
district can make from ^75. to $;100. per month. 

WRITING INK THAT CAN BEgMADE FOR 

$1.00 PER BARREL. 
Take Logwood chips or extract ana boil thoroughly pour off the 
liquid. While warm add from a half teaspoonful to a teaspoon- 
ful Byci'omate of Potash to the gallon; half a spoonful first,then 
add until the color is right. The above can be made including 
labor for Si, 00 per barrel, and makes a splendid writing fluid 
that will give universal satisfaction. A good article to sell at 
stores. 



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Collodion, or Liquid Cuticle. 

Take gun cotton and dissolve in sulphuric ether; thicken 
with gam mucilage. Direction — Apply to cuts,burns &c, and it 
forms an artificial skin, saving the use of cots and bandages. 
This should be put up in 2 oz. vials, Avhich retail at "iSc — 
wholesale at $2. per dozen. 

Blue Ink. 

Take soft Prusian Blue and Oxalic acid, equal parts. Pow- 
der them finely and add soft water to bring them to a thin 
p.iste; let it stand 2 or 3 days and add water to bring it to 
the desired shade. 

Red Ruling Ink. 

For Ledgers, etc. — Take the best Carmine and soft rain 
witer 6 oz ; wat?r of Amonia, 2 or three teaspoonsfuls, mix 
and shake thoroughly. 

Indellible Ink. 

Nitrate of Silver \ oz. hot distilled water % oz. ; when cooled 
a little, add rau;jilage \ oz. and sap green or buckthorn to 
color; mix well. The linen must be first moistened with 
the preparation as it is commonly called, dried and 
then written upon with a clean quill pen. This ink will 
bear dilution if not wanted very black. Cooley. The prepa- 
ration. Carbonate of soda, 1 to 14 oz. Water, 1 pt. Color 
with a little sap green or sirup of buckthorn. 

WITHOUT TREPARATION. 

Nitrate of silver 1 to 2 drhms ; dissolved add as much 
of the strongest ammonia water, as will dissolve the precip- 
itate, then add mucilage 1 to 2 drms and a little sap green 
to color. The Avriting turns black on pressing with a hot 
Italian iron. Ibid. 

Indellible Ink. 

Genuine Asphatum 1 part, Oil of Turpentine 4 parts, Dis- 
solve and add lampblack or black lead, to bring to the prop- 
er thickness. This resists the action of Iodine, Chlorine. Al- 
kali's and Acids. Cooley. 

2d, Asplatum 1 part. Oil of Turpentine 4 parts, Dissolve and 
color with printers ink. Both very permanent and capable of 
resisting all the operations of Dyeing and Bleaching, they at 
once otfer a cheap and excellent material for marking linnen 
&c , as they cannot be dissolved off by any menstrua that will 
not destroy the fabric. They may be put on with stamps or 
types, a neater method than with a brush or pen. Cooley. 
It can also be used with Stencil Plate. 



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SIRUP FOR HUMORS OF ALL KINDS. 

Take 1 lb. common Spanish sarsapavila, add 8 gallons of wat' 
er, and boil down two or three gallons; sweeten with raolassea 
and preserve with spirits; dose; a common tumbler 1 half or 
2 thirds full thx-ee times a day before eating. 

Cheap Hair Oil. 

Best Lard Oil or Castor Oil colored by putting in Alkanet 
in a sm.ill bag and letting it remain until of the right shade. 

Hair Restorative. 

Mix one drachm Lac Sulphur, 1 dr. Sugar ot Lead, 4 02. 
Rose water. Directions. — Shake the vial and rub the liquor 
well into the hair twice a day until the color is restored, 

A Good Hair Oil. 

Take 1 gallon Cologne Spirits, 90 per cent ; Add 1 qut. 
best castor oil, or what the spirits will cut, flavor with essen- 
tial oils to suit. 

Chilblain Lotion, 

1 oz. muriatic acid to eight ounces of water. Directions. — 
Soak the feat in warm water then rub the parts affected with 
the lotion, this should be done each night beforo retiring one 
week. 

Bed Bug Poison. 

1 pint Alcohol, 2oz. Salamoniac, 1 pint of spirits of turpen- 
tin3, 2 oz. «'orosive Sublimate, and 2oz. Camphor Gum ; mix. 
2 oz. vials retail for 25 cents. 

Wart and Corn Salve. 

Take common potash let it remain in the air until slacked, 
put up in drachm vials. For a counteract to l>e applied after- 
wards, put up balsam of Tolu or sweet oil, both should be 
sold togeher. Directions. — Shave the wart or corn close and 
apply the salve with the point ot a knife for three minutes, 
then squeeze out the roots. 

Ink Powder, for immediate use. 
Reduce to powder 10 oz. gall nuts, 3 cz. green copperas, 
and 2 oz. each of powdered alum and gum arabic. Put this into 
white wine and it is ready for use. 

Renovating Liquid for Clothing. 

Take 1 gall, strong decoction of logwood, strain, and when 
cool add 2 oz gum arabic. 

Directions — Clean the clothing of dirt and grease and go 
evenly over it with a sponge dipped in the liquid, then lay in 
the shade to dry. Then brush smooth and it will look quite 
new. The liquid must be kept bottled tight. Cooley. 



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Rouge Wash.. 

I oz. carmine best, mixed with 1 pint of alcohol ; to color the 
cheeks. Put up in 2 or 4 oz. vials. 

Hair Dyes. 

Litharge, 275 grs. quick-lime 1875 grs. starch, 930 grs. all 
in fine powder; mix. For use make into a paste with warm 
water or milk, and apply immediately to the hair with the 
fingers; rub well into the roots. Cover the whole with a 
moist leaf of cotton wadding several times doubled, and al- 
lowed to remain so over night. Rub off the powder with the 
fingers and then wash in warm soap and water. To restore 
the gloss, use pomatum or hair oil. This is one of the most 
innocent preparations of the kind. Like all other dyes it 
it must be reapplied, as the hair grows out and exposes the 
original color at the roots, say once in 3 or 4 weeks. Oil 
silk, or a cabbage leaf may be used instead of the cotton. 

2. — (Orfilla's) Litharge 6 parts, quick lime 5 parts, starch 
1 part, as last. 

3. — Spencer's, sap green ^ dr. nitrate silver 1 dr. hot water 
1 oz. Dissolve. Stains the hands if not careful. 

4. — Instantaneous. Moisten the hair with a solution of ni- 
trate silver in water (1 to 7 or 8) and then with a solution of 
hydrosulphuret of ammonia, and the hair before uncolored 
immediately turns black. 

LOZENGES 1st. QUALITY PEPPERMINT. 

White sugar in fine powder 14 pounds, mitcham oil of pep- 
permint (best) loz. mucilage of gum tragacanth to mix rolled 
out and finished as cough lozenges in receipt 3d. 

2d quality. — Sugar 12 lbs.. Starch 2 lbs. oil peppermint 3-4 
oz. mucilage of gum tragacanth or arabic to mix. 

3d quality. — Sugar 7 lbs. Starch, 4 lbs. oil peppermint 1-2 
02. mucilage to mix. 

4th quality. 

Common sugar 8 lbs., starch 4 lbs., plaster of paris 2 lbs., 
oil peppei'mint 1-2 oz., mix. 

— Spruce beer, cold water 10 galls, boiling water 10 
galls, mix in a barrel and add brown sugar 25 lbs. or mo- 
lasses 30 lbs., essence of spruce 1 oz. or more to flavor, add 
a pint of yeast and ferment, bottle in 2 or 3 days for use. 
If you wish white beer use white sugar. 

Honey. 

Take ten lbs. Sugar, 3 lbs. water, and Ih lbs bees' honey; 
40 grs cream tartar, and a few drops essence peppermint, 1 
drop oil of rose, the white of 2 or 3 eggs; boil over a slow 
fire. Skim and strain through a cloth; let it cool till milk 
warm and add 1^ lbs. more bees' honey; stir well. Makes a 
good article. 



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For Silver Ware. 

1-2 lb. chalk, i lb. ground pumice stone. Put on with a 
piece of wash leather. Put up in small wooden boxes. Sella 
well. 

To take stains out of Mahogany. 

Spirits of salts six parts, and salts of lemon 1 part; mix. 
Drop a little on the stain, and rub until they disappear. 

Teeth Powders. 

Take charcoal 1 lb. gum myrrh 1 oz. Peruvian bark 2 oz. 
rose pink 1 oz. and 4 oz. best fine sugar, all pulverized, and 
well mixed. This is an excellent article to sweeten the breath 
cleanse the teeth, and harden the gums. Put up in good 
shape, it must meet with a ready sale. 

Shaving Oil. 

Take 1 lb. Castile soap, add to it 1 qt. high proof Cologne; 
melt in a hot bath and strain into bottles. Put a little on a 
brush and rub it on the face. 

Shaving Soap. 

Good white soap in thin shavings 3 lbs. palm soap 1 lb. 
soft water I lb. soda 1 oz. melt carefully over a slow tire, in 
an earthen vessel and add oil of lavender 60 drops, lemon 40, 
bergamot 50 ; mix well and make into forms to suit. 

Transparent Soap. 

♦' White soap" dry, 1 part; alchohol, 5 parts; dissolve and 
distil off the alcohol until the soap is the consistence of 
moulding. Then make it into forms, slice them, in pieces and 
gradually distil off the remainder of the spirit. 
Blacking, 

Take oil of vitriol, 2oz. tanner's oil, 5 oz. lamp black, 1 lb. 
molasses, 5 oz. mix the vitriol and oil together and lei it stand 
a day or two ; then stir in the lampblack and make a thick 
paste, if too thin, add lamp-black; if too thick, molasses; to 
be applied with a brush. 

TOOTHACHE DROPS. 

Laudanum 8 parts alcohol, 5 parts camphor, 1 part pelli- 
tory of Spain, (powdered) 2 parts, cassia 1 part, opium 1 
part. Digest for a few days, and turn off the clear liquid. 
Apply with a little lint. Sell in qt. vials at 25 cents. 

Wash for Weak Sight. 

Beat up a lb. of alum in the white of an egg, smear the 
brow and lid with the mixture each night before retiring. 

To Clean Varnish. 
Use lye of potash and soda mixed with powdered chalk, do 
not have the lye too strong. 



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Soft Pomatum* 

Melt 9 lbs. lavd, 10 lbs. beeswax, 8 oz. gum benjamin, 5 
oz. perfume, to suit. 

ANOTHER. 

12 lbs. darifiecl suet, 2 lbs. essence bergamont, 2 oz. es- 
sence cinnamon, 1 oz. rose witer. 8 oz. oil lavendei', 
m3lt the lai\l anJ suet, then Avhile cooling add the rest. 

Roll Pomatum. 

Roll Pomatum, su3t 5 parts, lard and white wax each 1 
part, mix with a gentle heat, then add essential oils and es- 
sences to flavor. 

SAME. 

Mutton suet 5 lbs. white wax, 1 lb. essence or oils to flavor. 

SAMK. 

Yellow wax 5 lbs., white wax 1 lb., suet 15, melt and add 
neroli and cream to suit. 

To Preserve Eggs. 

Apply with a brush a solution of gum arable in water, let 
theai dry, aiii then pia^e them in dry charcoal dust. ICeep | 
them in a cool dry place, this excludes the air and will pre- f 
serve them a great leni^th of time. 

2. — Prepare as above, and place them in salt instead of 
coal-dust. 

Ro3ii3lle Powders. 

Take 1 dr. rochelle silt, 1-2 dr. saper carbonate of soda, mix 
well and put in paper, then put l-o dr. tartaric acid in difl'er- 
ent colored paper, mix with water in different tumbler.s, then 4 
pour to^ither, stir and drink quick the above is one doss 1 
To make larg3 quintities, take simdar proportions, weigh the 
amount for a single powder for sample, and put up the rest 
by it. Six powders are usually put up in a box, and sold for 
25 cents. The cost to make is but a trifle. 

Dovers Powders. 

Grind together, in a mortar, 1 part ippecac 1 part opium, 
and 8 parts vitriolated tartar and sulphate of potash. Dose 
for an adult 10 grs., child two years old 2 grs. It is an ex- 
cellent sudorific. In rheumatism it often proves an effectual 
remedy, as also in disentery and bowel complaints of chil- 
dren. 

Ic9 Cream. 

To 1 qt. milk add one or two eggs, and 1-2 lb. sugar flivor 
to Slit. Pat into tVjazia^ oins, plue th3 cream in a woolen 
firkin or other vessel, surrounded with salt and ice. Turn 
th3 can fast, and scrape down from the sides as fast as it 
freezes. Take out in tumblers and cups as fast as wanted. 
Turn the can occasionally as before to keep from melting. 



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Whitewash that will not rub off. 

Take lime and slack with watei% To each pail-full add 1-2 
lb. flower in thin paste. 

Liquid for Cleaning Mahogany. 

Mix spirits of salts 6 parts, with salts of lemon one part. 
Drop a little on the stains and rub until they disappear. 

Extract of Vanilla. 
Takeaqt. of pure French trxndy, cut up in pieces 1 oz. va- 
nilla beans and 2 oz. tongua bruised, add to the brandy and 
let it stand for 15 or 2'J days, shaking frequently. Pour off 
and filter and it is ready for use. This is in great demand for 
flavoring pies, cakes, puddings, jellies, &c. 

Imitation of Gold. 
Take linseed oil 3 oz. tartar, 2 oz. yolk of eggs boiled hard 
and beaten, 2 oz. aloes, half an oz. saffron, 5 grs. tumeric 2 
grs. Boil these together in an earthen vessel, and it makes 
a wash which, when applied to iron, looks like gold. If not 
thin enough, add more oil. 

French Rose Pomatum. 

White wax 1 lb., lard 3 lbs. suet 3 lbs., melt and when 
partly cold stir in rose water 1 pint oil rosemary, 20 drops 
otta of roses 25 drops. Pat it in a bag and let stand over 
night. The above makes a splendid article and sells readily. 

Eye Water. 

One or two grs. white vitriol dissolved in rose water. 

— Sugar of lead instead of vitriol, as before. 

— Pour boiling water on oak bark, let it stand till it 
Cools. Pour off and filter. 

— An infusion of opium, with boiling water, as before. 

— An infusion of hemlock, as last. All very good. Di- 
rections. Bathe the lids frequently. 

For Sore Eyes, 

Dissolve 1 oz. white copperas in 1 qt. Avater, apply to the 
corners of the eyes once in 3 or 4 hours, or oftener. An adult 
should take a tablespoonful, and a child a teaspoonful of 
cream of tartar dissolved in half a tumbler of water once a 
day. 

Pommade de la Jennesse. 

Lard 16 oz. white wax, 1 oz. nitrate of bismuth or pearl 
white, 2 oz. scent to suit. 

Liquid Blacking. 

Put one gall, of vinegar into a stone jug, and 1 lb. ivory 
black, well pulverized, a half lb. of sugar, a half oz. oil vitrei 
and six oz. water, stir frequently until thoroughly digested. 



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Spruce Beer Powders. 

White sugar 1 dr. carbonate of soda, 1 scruple essence 
spruce, 8 grs. essence of lemon, 1 gr. mix, envelope in 
blue paper, then take tartaric acid half dr., and wrap in 
white paper. Directions, dissolved in sepai-ate glasses 1-8 
fall of water, pour together and drink immediately. 

Put up in blue paper 30 grains super carbonate of 
soda, and in white paper 15 grs. tartaric acid, sweeten to 
suit, mix them in seperate tumblers with water, then add 
essence of spruce, lemon, pepjoermint or spearmint to suit, 
Pour them together, and drink while effervescing. 

SALT RHEUM SIRUP. 

Take a strong decoction of yellow dockroot, sweeten slight- 
ly with molasses, and preserve with alcohol, or what is bet- 
ter, pure holland gin, take a wine glass full 3 times a day , and 
bathe the parts affected with soft warm water. 

Shaving Soap. 

Take 1-4 lb. castilesoap, 1 cake Windsor soap, 4 gills laven- 
der water, and a very little Alcohol. Boil all together 
until thoroughly mixed. 

Tooth Ache Oil. 

Oil cloves 1 part, laudanum 2 parts, camphor 2 parts, oil 
cassia 2 parts, mix. 

Modelling Wax. 

This is made of white wax, which is melted and mixed 
with lard to make it malleable. In working it the tools and 
the board are moistened with water to prevent its adhering. 

TJncolored Sealing Wax. 

White Shelac 2 parts yellow rosin 3 parts, turpentine 1 part, 
mix carefully by heating. 

Colored. — Made as above, colord to suit. 

French Sealing Wax. 

Shellac 2 lbs., yellow rosin 1 lb., Venice turpentine 1 lb., 
Chinese vermillion 3 lbs., melt with a gentle heat, and form 
into sticks. From 12 to 20 to the lb. 

Common Solder for Tin. 

Lead 2 parts. Tin 1 part, fuze together and pour into 
mould. Used with powdered rosin. 

Sugar Vinegar. 

To each gallon water add 1^ lbs. Sugar, and one quart mo- 
lasses and a little yeast, leave it exposed for a few mouths in 
a warm dry place, partly open. 



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To render essence clear after turning it -white by reducing 
it with water. Fill a common tunnel 1 eighth full of cotton, 
crowded down hard, pour in the essence and let it filter slow- 
ly. If not clear at first run it through the second or third 
time. By following these directions the essence will retain its 
clearness after adding one half or three fourths water. This 
is a secret known to but few. 

COLOGNE. 

Alcohol 2 gallons, Neroli, Cedrat, Essence of Orange, es- 
sence of lemon, ecsence of Bergaraot, and essence of rose 
mary, each one 1 fourth oz. cardamons 2 dr. ; mix and 
filter. 

Another, — Alcohol 10 gallons, oils neroli, cedrat, orange, 
lemon, bergamot, rosemary, cardamons, each 1 oz. mix and 
filter. 

FARINA'S. — Cologne spirits 70 gallons,sage and thyme 6 dr. 
balmmint and spearmint each 12 oz. calamus aromaticus half 
oz., angelica root 1 fourth oz., petals of roses and violets 
each 4 oz., lavender flowers 2 oz., orange flowers, nutmegs, 
cloves, cassia, mace, each one half oz., wormwood 1 oz., sliced 
lemons and oranges each 2 ounces ; macerate for 24 hours ; 
let it settle and draw ofi" the clear. Then add essence of lemon, 
cedrat, balmmint, and lavander, each one and ahalf oz., ne- 
roli, 1 halfoz., essence of bergamot 12 oz., let it stand 12 
days, and it is ready for use. 

MACASSAR OIL. 
Olive oil 1 pound, oil of origanum, oil of rosemary 1 scruple, 
mix well. This oil is commonly imported and nice for the 
hair.— DOW. 

RHEUMATIC LINIMENT. 

1 oz. Camphor Gum, 6 oz. spirits of wine, 2 oz. spirits of 
Salamoniac, and 2 dr. Lavender ; To be used as a bathe. 

HEALING SALVE. 
1 half pound resin, 1 qt. raw linseed oil, 2 oz. sweet oil, enough 
of bees wax to thicken, put up in boxes of size to suit, good 
for burns and all kinds of sores. 

CHOLERA MORBUS, DYSENTRY, AND DIARHEA COR- 
DIAL. 

Turkey rhubarb and salaratus each one oz. pepermint 
leaves one half oz. mix materials in a stone jar, add one pint of 
boiling water, let it stand until cold, then add half a pint best 
brandy, and half ponnd loaf sugar, let it stand 2 days and 
strain through flannel, bottle for use; dose for an adult a ta- 
ble spoonful evej-y 25 minutes, for a child 1 or 2 years old two 
teaspoonfuls once in two hours. 



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— An excellent pain alleviator. To 1 gall. ' 90 per ct 
alcohol add 8 oz. gum myrrh, 2 oz. cayenne pepper, 1-4 oz. 
opium, 2 oz. camphor gum, and 1-4 oz. oil of peppermint, let 
them stand together 14 days. Shakiug frequently. 

Vegetable rouge wash. Finely powdered carmine 1 part, 
levigated French chalk, 4 parts clarified lard, 4 parts, mix in 
a movtar, and perfume with lavender or otta of roses. 

White elder ointment. Elder flowers 10 lbs., lard 8 lbs., 
suet 5 lbs., let them simmer together 5 hours, then strain. 

For scurvy in teeth, take a quart of good white wine vine- 
gar, heat a piece of steel red hot, quench it 8 or 10 times in 
the vinegar as fast as you can heat it. Then add to this 
liquor 1 oz. of powdered myrrh, and 1-2 oz. of powdered 
mastic. Wash the teeth 3 times a day. 

WASHING FLUID. 
1 lb. sal soda, 6 oz. unslackedlime, 3 oz. hartshorn, and 4 
galls, water. Put half a pint of this in a tub of water, then 
let the clothes soak over night, wring them out and put 
to boil, adding from a half pint to a pint of the fluid, accord- 
ing to the fineness of the clothes. 

2d, VERY CHEAP AND GOOD. 

To 1 gall, soft soap add 2 qts. soft water, 1 lb. sal soda 1 
gill spirits turpentine, mix by heating slightly. Add from a 
pint to a qt. of this fluid to a tub of water, let the cloths 
soak over night, wring them out and put them to boil, after 
putting a pint of fluid in the water, boil 30 minutes. 

A splendid purgative pill is made from butternut, by boil- 
ing the inner bark of the tree or the nut to ilie proper thick- 
ness, when upon cooling it, it should be made into common 
sized pills. Four to six pills are the proper dose for an 
adult, for a child 2 or 3. Where a person is miking any 
amount of pills, a machine is very convenient, cost 5.00 to 
25.00 dollars. 

ESSENCES. 

Essences of all kinds are made by cutting the oils in Alco- 
hol. About 1 oz. of Oil to one gallon 90 per cent. Alcohol, is 
the right proportion. 

ITCH LOTION. 

Sulphuret of potasli 6 ozs. sulphuric acid 1 1-2 oz. water 1 
pint; bathe the parts affected twice a day, also bathe with 
water and change clothes throughout, each night. 

ANTI-DYSPEPTIC CORDIAL. 
Take hickory ashes 1 qt. clean soot 6 ozs. boil in water 
1 gallon; mix and let them stand from 16 to 24 hours, stir- 
ing frequently pour off the liquor and drink a wine glass 
full three times a day. 



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To Prevent Inks from growing mouldy. 

Put a small lump of salt, about the size of a walnut to eaoh 
quart. 

TO PREVENT INK FROM FREEZING. 
Instead of water use alcohol or brandy, Avith the other in- 
gredient?, the same. 

HOT DROPS. 
Tnke gum mj'vrh 6 oz., ved or cayanne pepper 6 oz., let them 
stand m one gal. alcohol 16 days, shake frequently, filter, 
and it is ready for use. 

BURNING FLUID. 

To 1 gal. alcohol add 1 qt. spirits of turpentine. Color to 
suit. 

OINTMENTS. 
A very delicate and simple ointment is made of white or 
yellow wnx and sweet oil in the proportion of 5 oz. of oil to 
two of wax. 

OINTMENT. 
Melt together 2 parts spermaceti, one part olive or sweet 
oil, and 1 part white wax. 

PRECIPITATE OINTMENT. 

Take red oxide of quicksilver 1 part, hogs' lard 8 parts, 
mix thera well together in a mortar, and bottle, tightly seal- 
ing tlie corks with sealing Avax. 

CITRINE OINTMENT FOR SKIN DISEASES. 

Take one part quick silver, 2 parts 
nitrous acid, 5 parts lavd, and 9 parts sweet oil. First dis- 
solve the quicksilver in the acid, by digesting in a sand 
bath, melt the lard and oil, and add Avhile the solution is hot. 
Stir briskly together in a brass or wedgeAvood mortar. 

— An excellent salve f)r cuts, burns, bruises, ^-c, is 
made by using 5 lbs. fresh butter or lard, and adding 1 1-2 
lbs. common elder bark bruised, and 1 lb. plantain leaves 
bruised, mix them thoroughly with the lard, and let them 
stand 24 hours, then heat and strain, and put up in small 
tin boxes 

ANOTHER. 

— Use ihe wild indigo, and elder bark equal parts, 
pound thera thoroughly, and let them stand for 24 hours 
in three times their Aveight of lard then .squeeze Avith the hand, 
and strain. 

— To prevent ointment frcm becoming rancid, dissolve 
in the grease* Avhcn warm, a little gum beuzoin cr benzoic 
acid. 



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WORM VEHMIFUGE. 

Spirits of turpentine 1 oz. Castor oil 6 oz. oil of worm seod 
4 drs. "white sugar crushed 4 drs. mix thoroughly ; to be taken 
morning and night before eating; give a child 1 or two years 
old 1 teaspoonful, 5 or 6 years old two teaspoonfuls, for older 
children in proportion; if a gentle physic is required, use cas- 
tor oil or tincture of rhubarb. 

COMPOUND PULMONIC MIXTURE. 

Antimonial wine 1 oz. sweet spirits of nitre 1 oz. soft water 
8 ounces, powdered gum arabic 4 ounces, elixir paregoric 4 
oz. mix; dose one teaspoonful when troubled with cough- 
ing. 

TURLINGTON BALSAM; FROM AN OLD RECEIPT 
BOOK. 

Take gum benzoin 4 oz. gum storax 3 ozs. balsam tolu 1 oz. 
gum aloes sucatrine 1 and 1-2 oz. gum alibanum 1 and 1-2 
oz. gum myrrh 1 and 1-2 oz. roots of angelica 2 oz. tops of 
johnswort 2 ozs. ; pound these together, then add 3 pints rec- 
tified spirits of wine; let them stand together three weeks. If 
the gums are not all cut add more spirits. Shake and let it 
stand as before. 

FELON OINTMENT. 

Blue flag root and wild turnip, equal parts, stewed in hogs 
lard, strain and add 1 fourth tar, simmer together ; apply this 
to the felon until it breaks make a salve to dress it with after 
it is broken by adding to this beeswax and resin. 

FOR SALT RHEUM. 

Take common sassafras bark boil it down strong in soft wat- 
er, add hogs lard and simmer until the water is gone; put up 
in boxes. Directions. — Oint the parts affected three times a 
day for a week. 



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